They who travel far, easily miss their way.

TRavel is reputed a proper means to create men wise, and a possible to make them honest, because it forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security; and perswadeth good behaviour and tempe∣rance to such, who (far from friends and means) are wil∣ling to have little to do with the Lawyer or Physician. Men coming into other Countries, as if born into a strange world, with some discretion above them, which teacheth both to distrust others, and keep themselves sober; and to s•…ift off those homely fashions which Nature and Custome in their years of simplicity had put on them. But these ef∣fects are not general, many receiving more good in their Page  91 Bodies by the tossing of the Ship, whilst they are at Sea, then benefit in their Minds by breathing in a forreign Air, when they come to Land. Yet they are as desirous men should observe they have travelled, as careful in their tra∣vels to observe nothing; and therefore if they be not able to make it known by their relation and discourse, it shall appear by their clothes and gesture: Some attain to greater perfection, being able to shew at what charge they have seen other places, by their excellency in some other rare vices, or irregularity in strange opinions. As the times are, he is commended that makes a saving Voyage, and least dis∣credits his Travels, who returns the same man he went.